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UK game charts: February 18-24

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Feb 27, 2007 2:23 am PT

Final Fantasy XII hits the top slot, becomes the UK's fastest-selling game in the series so far; Crackdown debuts in the second spot.

Square Enix's Final Fantasy XII beat the only other new entry, Microsoft's Crackdown, to number one in the UK all-formats top 40 last week. FFXII grabbed 53.5 percent of all full-price PlayStation 2 sales, making it the fastest-selling game in the series in the UK so far.

The week's highest climber was Sudoku, which rose 19 places to 16, whereas the biggest plunge of the week went to Football Manager 2007, which fell 18 spaces to 39, almost disappearing from the chart altogether.

Budget software was a hit in last week's chart, with publisher Grabit/GDL making the top 10 with Bad Boys 2 at seven, along with Sudoku at 16, Sheep at 17, Warrior Kings: Battles at 27, Warrior Kings: Remastered at 40, and Ford Racing 2 at 34.

Electronic Arts maintained a strong presence in the all formats top 40, with FIFA 07 at three, Need for Speed Carbon at five, and The Sims 2: Pets at six.

Next week sees the release of several big titles, including Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii, The Sims 2 Seasons for PC, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 for the PS2, and Resident Evil 4 for PC.

110 Comments

  • esplender

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 6:58 am PT

    i am a bit late knowing the FF series. I think FF X and FF XII are the best series in the game. It's the only reason i still appreciate my PS2 console.

  • piercedgirl23

    Posted Mar 4, 2007 2:08 pm PT

    Final Fantasy is the only reason I have a PS2, haven't got XII yet but I'm still happily playing Wario Smooth Moves and Wii Sports so the PS2 is sitting unused for now.

  • TTDog

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 7:55 am PT

    Another reason that there are no FPS is that as most games are sold on the PS2... FPS's on PS2 suck harder than a $10 whore, the only decent one on there was..... was..... I'm struggling.... certainly wasn't Killzone....

  • Sanguis_Malus

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 5:31 am PT

    Every country has its differing sales charts, preferences are varied but of course the mass charts do not account for everybody's taste within that region.

    Lots of folk in the UK (myself included) love fps games. The uneducated views of people from elsewhere are merely false assumptions !

  • zeus_gb

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 4:19 am PT

    :
    FPS's never do good in UK. The violence tolerant level is lower there than in north america.


    What?!?!?!?!

    FPS games do very well in the UK and the only reason none are in the top 10 is because the FPS market has been dry for so long. Wait until Stalker comes out, that'll go straight to the top.

  • gary_safc

    Posted Mar 1, 2007 11:30 am PT

    gd gd final fantasy beats the rest and rightly so ..fifa 07 good.. evolution soccer 6 nice to see still there... sega megadrive collection i was expecting at no.2 but fair enough ... and mario still hanging in there.. nice collection of games in the charts this week

  • aramitz

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 6:42 pm PT

    'Violence tolerance is lower there'?. Have you ever actually been or met anyone from the UK?. I'd love to see some proof to back-up such a ridiculous claim. FPS's don't sell well in the UK because most of the time they're only released on PC's and PC gaming in the UK is fringe at the extreme (with the exception of the sims franchise).

    I also don't believe that Crackdown sold because of the Halo 3 beta. I believe it sold because of over-rated media hype and the fact that since the (middling-success) title of Lost Planet there really hasn't been any significant releases on the console since November (GoW).

  • prisoner711

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 4:21 pm PT

    I dont see what the big deal is with all those final fantasy games. They are all the same and I find them all very boring. On another note it is true that Crackdown will sell well just because of the Halo 3 demo. That is one smart move by Microsoft.
    I cant wait until Halo 3 come out!

  • dingodile

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 3:18 pm PT

    final fantasy 12 is cool, but i cant seem to get into it as i used to with rpgs. and the only reason crackdown sold so high is cuz the halo 3 demo...cant wait till that comes out

  • peeweeshift

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 3:10 pm PT

    FPS's never do good in UK. The violence tolerant level is lower there than in north america. Props to square enix, for making such a sick game.

  • Ardiendo_1

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 2:55 pm PT

    Yes well done to all the clever Final Fantasy players. I spend most of my free time on it at the moment. Today is the only day I haven't played it, I can feel my hand moving to the controller now... I am level 25, wasted loads of LP

    My only criticism of the whole game is when epensive gambit slots appear on the licence board getting in the way of progress. I really don't need them!

    Lol @ the Tomato Bandit guy, when I first got to that bit I tried to kill the T-rex thing as well. I hit it and saw it take off 0 damage, I ran like hell but it killed me. Annoyingly I hadn't yet saved it so I had to start from the beginning.

  • plaintruth123

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 1:38 pm PT

    I Bought this game, its awesome. I have bought nearly all of the FFX Games on the PS2 and they have all been fun to play. So far im on the part i have to go out side the city to destroy the Tomoto Bandit lol.

  • GTCzeero

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 1:12 pm PT

    I salute each and every person responsible for getting FF12 to the top spot.
    *salutes* I made sure I bought it on day of release, and haven't stopped playing it since.

  • TTDog

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 10:32 am PT

    I don't think there was quite this much hate for Sony when the PS2 came out though, the competition was Dreamcast who'd sort of made all the mistakes that Sony are making now.... Sega were fond of quoting "up to 6 billion players" and then didn't release a decent on line game for over a year, Sony has just dumped rumble, backward compatability, Dualshock pads that everyone loved, and added a huge price tag and a blu-ray player that not everyone wants.

  • just_an_opinion

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 10:01 am PT

    ragrdoll21 said
    "PS3 can never replace the PS2 because the attitude Sony has now is different and that is causing a negative effect. Haters have increased, websites are taking the mic, websites are constantly posting bad info after bad info etc. Never happened to the PS2. " Thats pretty much what happen to the PS2 when it came out too. "------

    yeah i agree but things were differet then, ps2 didn't have any real competition. xbox didn't come untill later and when it did it was more expensive and had far fewer games on it while the gamecube..........well it was a gamecube. now however the tables have turned and sony really need to get their act together and stop hoping that customers are still going to buy their console despite their common sense and rattional thinking telling them otherwise. sony actually have to work to be successfull this time around, both the 360 and the wii are amazing machines.

  • Dante565

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 9:41 am PT

    FF XII FTW

  • ragrdoll21

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 8:41 am PT

    "PS3 can never replace the PS2 because the attitude Sony has now is different and that is causing a negative effect. Haters have increased, websites are taking the mic, websites are constantly posting bad info after bad info etc. Never happened to the PS2. " Thats pretty much what happen to the PS2 when it came out too.

  • jaefrmbk2k

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 7:42 am PT

    i loved Bad Boys 1

  • TTDog

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 7:28 am PT

    "PS3 will never replace the PS2"

    Remember people saying that about the PS1 when the PS2 was launched, boy were they wrong.

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